Pearlman Keynotes NC Writers Network Conference

Lookout Books author Edith Pearlman will give the keynote address at the North Carolina Writers Network fall conference, held Friday, Nov. 2 through Sunday, Nov. 4 at the Embassy Suites in Cary. Pearlman’s collection of short stories, Binocular Vision, won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was a Finalist for the National Book Award, among many other honors.

The fall conference is the Network’s biggest annual event, featuring more than 25 workshops in creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry; master classes in creative nonfiction (led by Elaine Neil Orr),  fiction (led by Jill McCorkle) and poetry (led by 2012 North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee Kathryn Stripling Byer); one-on-one sessions with a publishing or bookselling professional, and more.

The Network is the state’s oldest and largest literary arts services organization devoted to writers at all stages of development.

For more information or to register for the fall conference, visit www.ncwriters.org.